Photographer and native New Yorker Vivienne Gucwa’s images of an eerily depopulated Big Apple during the much-hyped but ultimately uneventful non-blizzard earlier this week when all vehicles except snow ploughs and emergency vehicles were banned from the streets.
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Konrad Wimmel Is In Town! – a joyful composite photoseries by German photographer Jan Von Holleben who shoots his subjects from above as they pose sideways on the floor of his studio. I
It’s a technique that’s been well explored by the likes of Matej Pelijhan and others but Holleben – some of whose images feature up to 5000 individual photographs – takes it to a whole new L.S Lowry-esque level.
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Paul Newman in 1967.
The night sky on Friday while camping near Glendalough in Wicklow.
(Thanks Dave)
Composites (each of which was painstaking assembled over three months like a reverse jigsaw puzzle) drawn from snippets of up to 70 photographs found in the US Library of Congress Archives by artist Jim Kazanjian. Sez he:
My current series is inspired by the classic horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and similar authors. I am intrigued with the narrative archetypes these writers utilize to transform the commonplace into something sinister and foreboding. In my work, I prefer to use these devices as a means to generate entry points for the viewer. I’m interested in occupying a space where the mundane intersects the strange, and the familiar becomes alien. In a sense, I am attempting to render the sublime.
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Photographs of ice-laden trees in the Ural mountains of Russia by Sergey Makurin.
Of this utterly stunning image, Darraghnoob writes:
Adam’s Peak, Sri Lanka this morning. An avid Broadsheet Reader (my sister) sent this to me. I had to forward it on…
Examples of a series of 100 Victorian era cabinet cards ‘augmented’ by Colin Batty on Peculiarium.
See them all here.
Shots of the translucent blue underside of a flipped iceberg (free of snow and debris) taken by photographer Alex Cornell during a recent visit to Antarctica.
Such flips are rare, as up to 90% of the mass of an iceberg lies underwater. According to Science Focus, the events can cause minor tsunamis that have been known to swamp vessels nearby.